For some context, Babylon Bee is a satire site, best described as the Onion for Evangelicals.
The publisher of the Bee has tweeted a warning from Facebook, threatening to throttle traffic to the site, because Snopes.com says obvious satire isn't true.
But that said, I've worked on/at many (many, many, many) projects/companies that are dependent on someone else's ecosystem to be viable. Sometimes it's about traffic. Sometimes it's about behavior (e.g. they change an API without giving you a heads up). There's money to be made in those ecosystems and often times the owners of that ecosystem care a lot about their partner network...until they don't.
Worst of all, they really aren't beholden to keeping your lights on and you should realize that when entering a (often implicit) relationship with them. It's just the way it works.
Yes, there is often times a lot of money to be made (see Buffer and their dependency on the Twitter api). People say you shouldn’t start a business depending on a 3rd party, but what if your only profitable idea depends on one?
I worry that next Amazon is going to start denying affiliate links to political opponents and many blogs will be faced with a desperate existential threat. The politics of Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Twitter are so narrow and similar and yet they by themselves can choke any video maker or writer to death.
[+] [-] Digory|8 years ago|reply
The publisher of the Bee has tweeted a warning from Facebook, threatening to throttle traffic to the site, because Snopes.com says obvious satire isn't true.
https://twitter.com/Adam4d/status/969405110324523008
[+] [-] draw_down|8 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] bradhe|8 years ago|reply
But that said, I've worked on/at many (many, many, many) projects/companies that are dependent on someone else's ecosystem to be viable. Sometimes it's about traffic. Sometimes it's about behavior (e.g. they change an API without giving you a heads up). There's money to be made in those ecosystems and often times the owners of that ecosystem care a lot about their partner network...until they don't.
Worst of all, they really aren't beholden to keeping your lights on and you should realize that when entering a (often implicit) relationship with them. It's just the way it works.
[+] [-] imron|8 years ago|reply
The best satire has a grain of truth to it.
See also:
http://www.businessinsider.com/littlethings-online-publisher...
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[+] [-] fooey|8 years ago|reply
If your political ideology is hate, then you should expect to be increasingly ostracized and driven away into the shadows.
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[+] [-] draw_down|8 years ago|reply
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